Felder Rushing: Spring cleaning for garden relaxing

6:03 PM,
Mar. 20, 2014

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Felder Rushing

Happy Spring! Too bad we can't cut, paste and save weather like computer stuff, or I'd have a special folder of this week's to open some muggy day in the summer.

Unfortunately, it won't last; it's still too chilly for basil, peppers and my little seedling zinnias, all which need warm soil to grow vigorously. So I'm keeping content doing other stuff, like finally cleaning out my water features.

Drain the old water, scoop nasty bottom gunk into a bucket for the compost and refill. Other than that, which takes just a few minutes a year, my big pond, the iron sugar kettle and my great-grandmother's claw ...